Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The things I know, every man can know, but, oh, my heart is mine alone!” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“For we are so constituted by nature, that we are ever prone to compare ourselves with others; and our happiness or misery… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Nothing is therefore more dangerous than solitude. Our imagination, forced by its very nature to unfold, nourished by the fantastic visions of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share
Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share